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All currently enrolled students and employees have active accounts. Alumni retain the active account status for 60 days after graduation. Undergraduate students who stop attending (no longer enrolled) still hold active account status for one year after their last term of attendance. Graduate students hold the active account status for approximately seven years from the start of their program. For more information on student accounts, please consult the Account Retention Policy.

An employee has an active account until their last day of employment. At the end of this last day, the account becomes inactive. They will no longer have access to IUP resources.

If you have any questions about these processes, you can log a ticket via ihelp. However, if you are an alumni or a former student, please call us at 724-357-4000 or email us at it-support-center@iup.edu.

Per the Computer Account Retention Procedure, student accounts remain active for a specified period of time after graduation or leaving the university. Once that timeframe passes, the IUP account is inactivated.

Alumni and former students still have access to select services. For more information on accessing alumni/former student services, see the Alumni/Former Student Services page. Please note, alumni and former students will not have access to the campus network or an IUP email account.

Newly admitted students and employees must activate their IUP computing accounts. Once you've activated the account and the initial password is set, you will be able to access the IUP Web Single-Sign-On services such as MyIUP, email, and ihelp.

Student Instructions

To activate your account, you will use the new and admitted students account activation process. All the information you need to complete this task was provided in your acceptance packet.

You will enter your University ID, your date of birth in MMDDYYYY format (no dashes or slashes), and the personal email account that you provided to IUP when you applied.

You'll get an email with a code that allows you to complete the activation of your account. If you do not receive the code after a few minutes, please check your junk or spam mail folder.

The last page in the activation process lists your MyIUP username and IUP email address.

Employee Instructions

To activate your account, you will use the employee account activation process. All the information you need to complete this task was provided to you by Human Resources.

You will enter your Employee Number, your date of birth as MMDDYYYY (no dashes or slashes), and the email address that you provided during the hiring process.

The system will send you an email with a code to this email so you can complete your account activation. If you do not receive the code after a few minutes, please check your junk or spam mail folder.

The last page in the activation process lists your MyIUP username and IUP email address.

Please keep in mind that if you just updated your IUP network password, you must update the password on any devices that are connected to the IUP Wi-Fi. Refer to Password Practices if you are unsure of what to do with your account when resetting your password. If you are having issues with logging in to your account or connecting to the IUP Wi-Fi, please refer to Troubleshooting Techniques.

If you have forgotten your password and you signed up for the self-service password reset option, the instructions below will explain how to reset your IUP Network Password.

Please review the following instructions before visiting the Password Reset Page.

1. Enter your University ID (e.g., @00000000) and your date of birth (mmddyyyy). Be sure to enter your date of birth in the (mmddyyyy) format. This is the two-digit month, two-digit day, and four-digit year.
2. Click on Change Password.
3. You will be prompted to verify the phone number set up with the account.
4. Verify your phone number and click Yes, Continue.
5. You will receive a message on your phone with a code. Enter this code into the validation box and hit the Submit button.
6. If you entered the correct code, you will see your computing account information and the option to enter your new password.
7. Enter the password you wish to use in the Enter your NEW Password box. Re-enter the password you wish to use in the Confirm your NEW Password box.
8. Click Submit to set the selected passwords.
9. If the password change was successful, you will see a message indicating that your password was successfully changed. If there was a problem, review the error message carefully, and try to reset the password again. If you continue to have problems, please contact the IT Support Center at 724-357-4000.

Please keep in mind that you just updated your IUP network password. Any devices that are connected to the IUP Wi-Fi will need to be reconnected. Please refer to Password Practices if you are unsure of what to do with your account when resetting your password. If you are having issues with logging in to your account or connecting to the IUP Wi-Fi, please refer to Troubleshooting Techniques.

• If you wish to change your password, please refer to the instructions to update your current password.

Update Current Password

In the MyIUP portal:

1. Log in to MyIUP. Go to Discover and search for "password."
2. On the My Student Information, Data, and Accounts card, click on Password Reset.
3. Select the Network Password from the list and click Set Selected Passwords.
4. Follow the prompt to change your password.
5. You will need to reconnect any devices to the network with this new password and update any saved passwords in browsers.

The State System of Higher Education Employee Self Service portal allows employees and student employees to view and manage personnel information. Student employees use ESS to submit their hours for a pay period.

Users use their IUP username and password to log in to the State System Employee Self-Service website.

A PaSSHE/ESS password is only needed for accessing the SourcePoint tab within ESS. Employees can reset their PASSHE/ESS password via the password reset option in MyIUP. This is the recommended method for resetting your PASSHE/ESS password. The PASSHE/ESS portal has a self-service portal. The self-service portal requires self-enrollment before you can utilize this service. If you have not enrolled in the PaSSHE/ESS Self-Service Portal, you will need to use the password reset option in MyIUP.

Read more about the PASSHE/ESS portal.